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In episode 145 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik meet the authors of a new book about space travel called Star Bound: A Beginner’s Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard’s Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between, Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III.
Related: ‘Star Bound’ Offers an ‘Acerbic Take on Space History’ and America’s Space Program (Exclusive)
Emily founded the popular Facebook group Space Hipsters, which now has 66,000 members, and Bruce is a retired lawyer and space enthusiast who also happens to be the son of Bruce McCandless II, the NASA astronaut who flew on the shuttle and pioneered The use of manned spacecraft was a maneuver unit.
We’ll be covering a lot of ground in this one, so take your hand off the ejector lever and buckle up!
Also this week: Trump wants astronauts on Mars, Earth’s quasi-moon, the goddess of hinges? And we finally know what a meteorite hitting a porch sounds like.
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This Week in Space looks at the new space age. Every Friday we dive deep into a fascinating topic. What will happen to the new race to the moon and other planets? When will SpaceX really send people to Mars?
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